{"id":52357,"date":"2023-03-02T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T02:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52357"},"modified":"2023-03-02T18:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T02:08:02","slug":"15-arrested-in-law-enforcement-operation-targeting-fraudulent-withdrawal-of-benefits-for-low-income-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52357","title":{"rendered":"15 Arrested In Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Fraudulent Withdrawal of Benefits for Low-Income Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cOperation Urban Justice,\u201d a large-scale law enforcement operation this week, has resulted in the arrest of 15 individuals who allegedly used information from \u201cskimmed\u201d electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards to make unauthorized withdrawals of funds that had been disbursed to low-income individuals, the Justice Department announced Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More than 300 law enforcement officers early Wednesday morning began monitoring about 20 ATM locations across the Los Angeles area,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">They identified individuals making multiple cash withdrawals with cards encoded with information that had been stolen from cards used by the California Department of Social Services to provide CalFresh and CalWORKs benefits to qualified recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Authorities made arrests after determining that the suspects at the ATMs were not entitled to access funds deposited into beneficiary\u2019s accounts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">At this time, federal prosecutors have filed five criminal complaints charging defendants with the use of unauthorized access devices (the cards used to make the cash withdrawals) or possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">They are expected to file additional cases later Thursday and Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">The defendants were arrested, many of them Romanian nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29089 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Los-Angeles-Police-Department-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/>The Los Angeles Police Department started investigating the fraudulent withdrawal of benefits in August 2022, and the U.S. Secret Service soon after joined \u201cOperation Urban Justice\u201d as a joint partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Documents filed in federal court outline how the California Department of Social Services has identified over $38.9 million in funds stolen from victims\u2019 EBT cards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">This fraud has targeted CalWORKs and CalFresh (previously known as \u201cfood stamps\u201d), both intended to help low-income beneficiaries purchase food and provide for basic needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13120 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Secret-Service.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Secret-Service.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Secret-Service-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> The investigation has revealed that the fraudulent withdrawal of these benefits is made with \u201ccloned\u201d cards, which are debit cards, gift cards, or other devices with magnetic strips encoded with information from legitimate EBT cards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Court documents allege that some of those involved in the fraudulent withdrawals obtained stolen EBT card information from \u201cskimming\u201d devices installed on ATMs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u201cBy stealing public benefits using counterfeit EBT cards, the defendant in these cases plundered the accounts of some of our community\u2019s poorest residents\u2014people who need these benefits to survive,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada.\u00a0 \u201cThese actions are part of a larger assault on the EBT system, one which has caused tens of millions of dollars in losses.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u201cToday\u2019s successful operation demonstrates how a sophisticated and extensive criminal scheme can be disrupted and dismantled by a team of law enforcement professionals who approach their investigation with an even greater degree of cooperation,\u201d said James Huse, Special Agent in Charge with the Los Angeles Field Office of the U.S.Secret Service. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u201cOn March 1, 2023, the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s Commercial Crimes Division partnered with the United States Secret Service and other federal law enforcement agencies to conduct a collaborative enforcement operation targeting the State of California\u2019s Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) fraud issue with losses in the tens of millions of dollars,\u201d said Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Adding,\u201cthe operation involved numerous Los Angeles Police Department personnel and resulted in the recovery of 429 cloned state-issued EBT cards, $129,000 in US currency unlawfully drawn from ATMs at several Southern California banking institutions, as well as resulting in the arrests of 11 Romanian national individuals for EBT access card fraud with losses totaling over $1000-a federal felony. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">All of the individual cases will be filed by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office (USAO) for federal prosecution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On February 2, as part of Operation Urban Justice, three additional defendants were arrested after they allegedly withdrew funds from ATMs in Hollywood and Tarzana with cloned EBT cards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">All three were subsequently named in federal indictments that charged them with bank fraud (which carries a statutory maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison), aggravated identity theft, unlawful use of unauthorized access devices and possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0375305876MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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